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PIC 4-NEV1 13
Potter & Crittenden Bldg.. Main St., 130. Aka South Yuba Canal Office. Potter & Crittenden Bldg aka S. Yuba Canal Office.

Subject: Potter & Crittenden Bldg.. Main St., 130
Notes: Aka South Yuba Canal Office. Potter & Crittenden Bldg aka S. Yuba Canal Office.

Scanned on: 2007-10-30 07:37:50
File Size: 2.01 MB
Dimensions (pixels): 2,152 x 2,686
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    Pre aNev i -13 pas of the heritage they left to California's eeoromic developments f a SOUTH YUBA CANAL OFFICE The South Yue Canal building had its beginnings as a crockery store in late August of 1855. It was after one of Nevada City's destructive fires (1854) thag A. W. Potter built the two-story brick structure. (WO Od SAL . SAL Re eee Potter and Crittenden's pretentious building, with its imitation marble front and wooden balcony, housed the new district attormey, A. A. Sargent, and the doctor-brothers, Robert and Harvey Hunt on the second level. ‘The main teen. aglow with bright-colored pottery and useful household wares, became a favorite shopping ;center of homemakers. ‘An added attraction was the Pioneer Book Store of George Welch. The building was sold to James Wharbenby , agent for the South Yuba Canal Company on Oct. 5,.1857)for $4500, and the operation of an extensive system of reservoirs and ditches was carried on in this building for twenty-three years. Unfortunately, the interior was badly gutted in the 1863 fire, and the second floor arrangement is not the same, An iron-leced balcony replaced the Wooden one, Although the end of the South Yuba Canal Comnany came with its sale in 1880, the storage and dispensing of water continued under variets company mames. It's story is a hi story of water development in Northern California. Many of the old aqueducts have been adapted to today's needs and are #111 in use. If the gho st® of Mbaxterby , Kidd, Rich, Marsh and others who formed the South Luba Canal Company still patrol the matin ds teh, they must indeed be be i] we Ty? a & SH) GIL AA PS